Massachusetts Accidents

A Lowell HVAC tech got wrecked by a rental car with bad brakes, and the real fight turned into which insurer is supposed to pay.

A Springfield nurse gets hit after work, the other vehicle had known brake problems, and the city tries to hide behind immunity because the road was a mess too.

A Lowell HVAC tech got hit by a wrong-way truck and the biggest problem now is that the trucking company's electronic crash data may vanish fast if nobody moves.

A Worcester business owner hit from behind on a motorcycle needs to lock down evidence fast because a hospital lien can devour a decent claim if the proof is sloppy.

Not a simple mistake, oversight, or ordinary carelessness. A willful violation involves a person or company knowingly breaking a legal duty, rule, or safety requirement, or...

A pregnant pharmacist hit while walking on a Brockton road without a sidewalk can get squeezed from both sides fast: employer pressure, insurer surveillance, and settlement offers before the real medical costs show up.

A city road claim in Fall River can turn into a fight over notice, vehicle damage, lost income, and a Medicare payback that shrinks the settlement fast.

If you're an HVAC tech who went through a ceiling and everybody is pointing at somebody else, the evidence you grab in the first 48 hours can decide whether this stays "just workers comp" or turns into a real third-party claim too.

A wrong-way crash is bad enough, but when the truck belongs to the City of New Bedford the rules, deadlines, and payout limits get a lot harsher.

If the crash happened at a Worcester intersection with a missing or hidden stop sign, the other driver's suspended license and lapsed policy are bad facts for them, but your fastest money usually starts with your own coverage.

The nightmare version is getting fired right after reporting an injury, filing a workers' compensation claim, or speaking up about unsafe conditions - and being told it was...

The ER note helps you if it says your condition was aggravated by this crash. The insurance companies will use that same note to argue your back was already bad before today....

The part that trips people up most is that it is not the same as "more likely than not." It is a higher burden of proof than a preponderance of the evidence, but lower than...

If a Cambridge crash case is stuck, the lawyer has gone silent, and the insurer is waving around old social media posts, switching attorneys mid-case is allowed in Massachusetts and the fee fight is usually between the lawyers, not you paying twice.

Insurance companies and defense lawyers sometimes talk about a filing deadline as if it were fixed in stone: miss it, and the case is over. That framing leaves out tolling,...

Losing, destroying, altering, or failing to preserve key evidence can directly reduce the value of a claim - or sink it entirely. When that happens, a court may limit defenses,...

What trips people up most is that an employer usually can fire someone for almost any reason, but not for an illegal reason. At-will employment means either the employer or the...

Insurance companies and defense lawyers sometimes use this idea to argue that an injured worker "chose" the risk and could have avoided harm by declining the task. That framing...

People often confuse this with a regular firing. A direct termination happens when an employer clearly ends the job. Constructive discharge happens when the employee resigns,...

Paying your own medical bills because you're scared to report the crash is the mistake that costs people the most. What the insurance company wants you to believe: keep this...